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Trump's denunciation of individuals on Twitter, which often leads to harassment by his followers, tests the limits of Twitter's rules against incitement — Last night President-elect Donald Trump used his Twitter account to criticize Chuck Jones, an Indiana union organizer who has been sharply critical …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Former Magic Leap employees say planned release won't include tech seen in early prototypes; Magic Leap recruiting aided by video that didn't use firm's tech — Reality check — Magic Leap's allegedly revolutionary augmented reality technology may in fact be years away from completion and …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Gadget companies like Pebble, Jawbone, and Nest are struggling as budget manufactures in Asia undercut prices and smartphones dominate most people's lives — Remember gadgets? — They were little electronic things that did stuff for you. They would play music or record videos or give … | Bloomberg: |
How Alphabet has tightened spending on its Other Bets divisions such as Fiber, a strategy enforced by CFO Ruth Porat, leaving some employees frustrated — Alphabet's CFO Ruth Porat wants to bring focus to Mountain View. Can the moonshot factory adapt? — by — Subscribe Reprints
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| Benjamin Mullin / Poynter: |
NBC News' alert app Breaking News to shut down at the end of the year due to lack of revenue; all 20+ staff to remain on payroll until January 20 — Breaking News, the popular alert app from NBC News, is shutting down at the end of the year. — The entire staff at Breaking News …
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Sources: Gene Munster to leave Piper Jaffray to start Loup Ventures, a VC firm that plans to invest in VR, AR, AI, and robotics — Wall Street's sell-side community will be getting a bit of a shake up Thursday. — In addition to word that technology and internet analyst Bob Peck … | John Markoff / Backchannel: |
Twenty-eight year veteran NYT tech reporter John Markoff to retire, will remain on contract for more stories, become writer in residence at Berkeley in 2017 — I'm retiring from the greatest job I ever knew—but I still believe that journalism will thrive … Yes, I'm retiring from the New York Times.| Bloomberg: |
Facebook investor lawsuit alleges Marc Andreessen aided Zuckerberg's interests instead of shareholders'; documents show Zuck interested in government service — Earlier this year, Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg came to his shareholders with a big question: would they approve …
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Thanks:@notjenniferyu| Alex Cranz / Gizmodo: |
Many Pebble customers are left without a warranty or technical support after the Fitbit acquisition — Pebble, one of the best-known smartwatch brands, is dead. Rumors about the company's demise have been swirling since The Information reported a potential Fitbit buyout last week.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google Daydream adds two video apps, NextVR and HBO, which will let subscribers watch TV on a virtual big screen; Netflix is listed as coming later this month — Google's Daydream virtual reality headset is getting a new slate of games and apps. Today, seven more titles are padding out the library …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Shigeru Miyamoto explains why Mario runs on his own in Super Mario Run, launching next week on iPhone, and says the game will introduce new players to Nintendo — The creator of Mario on how smartphones will introduce new players to Nintendo — In 2004, Nintendo released …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Anonymous social network Yik Yak lays off about 30 of its 50 staffers as growth stalls; sources say the remaining employees are mostly engineers — Yak to square one — Yik Yak has laid off a “significant” number of employees amid a downturn in the app's growth prospects, The Verge has learned.
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TechCrunch and CNNMoney. Tweets: @joshconstine, @jryoung, @caseynewton, @davidbyttow, @caseynewton, @mikeisaac, @caseynewton, and @danprimack
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Tinder launches M&A branch Swipe Ventures; Sean Rad steps down as Tinder CEO, is named chairman of Tinder and Swipe, as Match CEO Greg Blatt named CEO of Tinder — Today, Tinder is launching a new M&A branch of the company called Swipe Ventures, which will be led by Sean Rad.
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